Some 1 million employees cannot still return to work even if the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus bubble is now under a modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) status, Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez said. According to Lopez, the DTI estimated 1.5 million workers lost their jobs...
A large majority, 94.7% percent of businesses and establishments in the National Capital Region (NCR) are compliant with the government mandated minimum health protocols (MHP), according to the first quarter survey by the Department of Trade and Industry. The first quarter DTI Fair Trade...
The extended enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila and nearly provinces will push more than 100,000 additional Filipinos into poverty as these stringent lockdowns are seen take a heavier toll on the economy, jobs and household income. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III and...
To comply with the temporary suspension of inbound passenger travel to Region 6 (Western Visayas) from the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus area, as well as from Cebu and Davao, Philippine Airlines (PAL) immediately cancelled all flights from Manila to Bacolod, Iloilo, Antique, Caticlan, Kalibo...
Food security advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan asked the government to include fish products in the distribution of food relief during the implementation of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila and nearby areas. This is to help fishermen have a sure market during the ECQ, as well as...
The Taguig City government has allowed outdoor exercise and liquor consumption, and will give “ayuda” or food packs to families under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the national government in the NCR Plus bubble areas -- the National Capital Region, and the provinces of...
Oil companies as well as power firms have been directed by the Department of Energy (DOE) to guarantee that services to Filipino consumers must be seamless during the government-enforced stricter two-week general community quarantine (GCQ) within the so-called National Capital Region (NCR) plus...
This following the IATF’s GCQ implementation Postpone your Holy Week vacation plans and forget dreaming about the Baguio air breeze—again. The Summer Capital’s Burnham Lake (Zaldy Comanda) Following the bubble General Community Quarantine (GCQ) in National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan,...
With the alarming growth of adolescent pregnancies revealed over the weekend by Popcom, the commission has announced that this issue is of national emergency. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash Today, Philippine News Agency shared a report by the Civil Registry Statistics of the Philippine Statistics...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is continuing its efforts to deliver food donations to thousands of families in some 22 provinces and cities ravaged by three sucessive super typhoons, with total donations reaching P15 million to date and rising. “We continue to get appeals for help from so many...
Globe Telecom Inc. has migrated 86 per cent of its network to 4th Generation (4G) technology in Metro Manila, the telco today reported. Pateros, Marikina City, Valenzuela City, Malabon City and Navotas topped the list of cities with the highest percentage of completion. The rest of the National...
